Game apparatus.



Nm 694,799. v Patented Mar., 4,v V1902.

D. SMITH. GAME APPABATU S.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL SMITH, OF GRIFFN CORNERS, NEXV YORK.

AGAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part et' Letters Patent No.1694g799, dated March 4, 1902.

' Application inea nach 2s, 1901. sain no. 53,207. (No mann To aZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Griffin Corners, in the county of Delaware and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a game apparatus constituting a miniature bowling-alley arranged so that it may be conveniently employed in any room of a dwelling, to which endthe invention comprises a table of convenient size with certain especially-arranged devices for enabling the game to be played.

This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ot' this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view-ot the invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the ballprojector, the view being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 8, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 er Fig. 2.

o. represents a table which has legst b forA sustaining it, the legs h being pivotally attached to the table and the legs b' being pivotally carried on the legs b and adapted to be or passage-ways CL3, serving to carry the balls.

back to the point from which they are thrown. The pins (indicated at c in the drawings) are adapted tobe set at one end of the run d2, just at the mouth ot'Y an inclosure d, formed at the adjacent end of the table. This inclosure is designed to receive the pins that are knocked down, as well as the balls which are shot against them.

d' represents a hinged lid, by raising which access may be had to the inclosure d. If desired, this lid d' may be provided with a tablet or other device for keeping the score of the gaine.

At the other end of the table is arranged a devicefor throwing the balls, which device is carried on a transverse bar e, attached to the table, and it comprises a body portion f, with a capv f fastened thereto. This cap has a groove f2 formed in its under side, and this groove receives the bar e, permitting the ball projector to be rocked on the' bar e, so as to aim at the pins.` A plunger f3 is mounted horizontally in the body fof the projector and has at one end a finger-piece f4 and at the other end a seat f5 for the ball, which is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 and shown by full lines' in Fig. l. An expansive spring f6 serves to throw the plunger f3 from the po'- sition shown in Fig. 3 to its rightward position, or, in other words, until the shoulder of the finger-piece f4 strikes the body f. This shoulder may be cushioned, as indicated, if desired.

- g represents a pawl which is mounted in the body f of the projector and spring-pressed into engagement witha notch in the plunger fso that the instant the plunger is drawn backto the position shown in Fig. 3 the pawl engages the plunger and holds it. For releasing this pawl I employ a pin h, which is vertically moved 'into andv through the cap f' of .the projector and upon being pressed down throws the pawl out of engagement with the plunger and permits the spring f6 to impart a quick movement to the plunger. This movement is abruptly arrested by the engagement of the finger-piece f4 with the side of the proL jector-body, and then the ball is shot along' the way a?. f

The game apparatus may be used in any Way and according to any rules desired. It

is best adapted, however, to the well-known game of bowling, aud I prefer to employ it in this connection.

Various changes in the form, proportions,

a double-tapered or hour-glass-shaped slot, a releasably holding the plunger against the 1o sustaining-bar passed through the slot, and a spring.

plunger carried by the body. In testimony whereof I have signed my 2. A projector for a game apparatus, eomname to this specification in the presence of prisin g a body, a part of which is formed with two subseribin g Witnesses. a double-tapered or hour-glass-shaped slot, a sustaining-bar passed through the s1ot,ap1un ger carried in the body, a spring actuating the plunger in one direction, and a device for DANIEL SMITH. Witnesses:

MARSHALL MAYEs, CARSTEN HADENEP. 

